cambodian lok lak

Submitted by corykaplin
Updated:
December 21, 2008

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A delicious recipe for chicken, beef or shrimp found all over Cambodia, a favorite while I was traveling there. The original recipe was taken by someone else from the "Smokin'Pot" restaurant and cooking school in Battambang. It's been modified to get the flavour of my own Lok Lak experience in Siem Reap. Thanks to Mr Phat for introducing me to this dish.

Preparation

- Mix sugar, salt, pepper, oil, soy sauce, oyster sauce, ketchup and garlic in a mixing bowl, add meat and coat thouroughly. Marinate 30 to 60 minutes.- Mix salt, sugar, pepper and garlic in small bowls (pepper sauce for each person)- Add oil to a wok, sautee onions until brown and add chicken, stir fry 5 to 10 minutes, until done.- Mix in chili sauce as desired.- Prepare serving plates with rice and a bed of lettuce- Just before serving, squeeze the juice of 1/2 lime into the pepper sauce and stir lightly.- Serve chicken over lettuce with pepper sauce on side. The chicken is eaten wrapped in a lettuce leaf and dipped into the pepper sauce.

For a little more punch, add chili sauce to marinade rather than while cooking and marinate an extra 30 minutes.

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Recent Review

Very tasty easy to
make recipe.
I made it with pork
and it was
fantastic. The only
thing I found was
when making the
pepper sauce to go
with it, 1/2 a
teaspoon of salt was
way way too much for
my taste and next
time I'l probably go
with a 1/4 teaspoon,
maybe slightly less.
This could of course
have been the porks
fault as well but
the pepper sauce was
just too salty.
Thanks for this, my
girlfriend loved it
as well so I'm sure
I'll be making it
again